Detroit

Van Gogh painting on display at Detroit Institute of Art is stolen, lawsuit claims

Brazilian art collector says he paid $3.7m for the 1888 oil called The Novel Reader, when a third party took possession of it

Maya Yang

13, Jan, 2023 @6:00 AM

I was given a house for free – but it already belonged to someone else

When I put the house on the market, I uncovered a story of a Black woman losing her home to municipal greed

Anne Elizabeth Moore

18, Oct, 2022 @7:00 AM

‘Utility redlining’: Detroit power outages disproportionally hit minority and low-income areas

City’s electricity provider uses resilient lines in richer and whiter areas while poorer districts suffer from failure-prone equipment

Tom Perkins

06, Oct, 2022 @10:00 AM

Biden talks up electric vehicle revolution – but is America ready to give up gas?

President appears at Detroit auto show, where EVs are this year’s stars – but the road to electrification promises to be a bumpy one

Tom Perkins in Detroit

17, Sep, 2022 @6:00 AM

Thanks to bad electoral laws, Detroit will soon have no Black members of Congress | David Daley

If we’re to avoid a future in which the nation’s largest Black-majority city lacks representation that looks like most of its citizens, we need electoral reform

David Daley

03, Sep, 2022 @10:20 AM

‘We didn’t even know they were there’: the little-known bands finding fans years later

Surprise fame has found bands decades after they recorded music, including a group who originally made an album when they were just 11 years old

Caitlin Curran in New York

16, Aug, 2022 @1:54 PM

Pro-Israel group pours millions into primary to defeat Jewish candidate

Aipac says Democrat Andy Levin, a self-described Zionist, is insufficiently pro-Israel – alarming some because much of the money comes from wealthy Trump donors

Chris McGreal in Detroit

29, Jul, 2022 @7:00 AM

Detroit to reform cash bail system to end practices that jail people ‘too poor to purchase their freedom’

Overhaul is the result of a lawsuit and is intended to challenge two-tier system where low-income people are jailed for lack of funds

Coral Murphy Marcos

13, Jul, 2022 @10:00 AM

Carlos Santana recovers after onstage collapse in Detroit

74-year-old guitarist says he ‘forgot to eat and drink water so dehydrated and passed out’

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

06, Jul, 2022 @8:03 AM

‘It’s important to fight’: US cities erupt in protest as Roe v Wade falls

Soon after the supreme court struck down abortion protection, pro-choice demonstrators took to the streets

Sam Levin in Los Angeles and Victoria Bekiempis in New York

25, Jun, 2022 @5:01 AM

Black-led urban farms are thriving – until they have to fight for their land

Urban farms play a vital role in feeding communities but are hampered by precarious leases and gentrification

Patrice Worthy

05, Mar, 2022 @1:00 PM

‘A really bad deal’: Michigan awards GM $1bn in incentives for new electric cars

Automakers’ history of taking fat subsidies and overpromising job growth make some analysts skeptical of the deal